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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Appreciated Craving Deepest Human
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

Change Immediately Life Start
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We convince by our presence

Convince Our Presence
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Bad Best God Good
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

Alcohol Cold Criticisms Crushed
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Awake Compared Half Ought
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Believe Deserved Doubt Enemies
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

Candor Faults Forgiven Him
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Act Chosen Equally Ethical
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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Both Both Sides Bring Closer
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Another Beforehand Come Enough
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Beauty Departure Independence Rely
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Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Behalf Caution Certain Errors
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Be curious, not judgmental.
Curious Judgmental
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences

Anywhere Art Been Beyond
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game

American Baseball Game Great
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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

About Call Consciousness Different
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Me Metaphysics More Satisfies
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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Action Control Direct Feeling
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed

Beautiful Flowers Garden Give
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Affect Anything AnythingElse Attitude
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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Flesh Great Poem Shall
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Belief creates the actual fact.
Actual Belief Creates Fact
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Believe Leaf Less Stars
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Bad Bad One Between Cause
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Enough Learned Like Those
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Again Age Character Like
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Act Advantage Better Character
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Dismiss Insults Soul Which
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Audiences Great Must Poets
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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Accommodate Business Cannot Convenience
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Cause Failure Faith His
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To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle

Hour Me Miracle Night
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Belief Concerning Doubt Faith
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

AiBest Earth Eat Grow
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Always Anything Believe Everyone
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Every Law Contrary Potent
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Always Ambassador Authors Best
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Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Actually Catch Character Darker
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Come Force Idea Individual
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Employment Following Man May
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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

About Another Being Currents
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We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

Because Happy Laugh
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Day Each EachDay Everybody
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe

Hub Object Universe
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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Cling Doomed Even Find
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Afraid Am Back Better
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If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Door God Grace Subliminal
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Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Acceptance Any Consequences First
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Said Several Thousand Universe
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